Why all the phasers hidden around his home?

Cos it's NOT Star Trek, no matter how much Abrams and Kurzman want you to think it is.

The phasers hidden everywhere is the craziest thing i've seen yet in this show. Like Picard's ranch is some old west plantation out in the middle of a desert somewhere. That needs to fend off bandits and corrupt sheriffs at a moments' notice.

I don't know. Now that you can beam anywhere from the whole universe in a split second, maybe security needed to get ratcheted up a hundred notches. Lord knows there's NO security or star bases around planet Earth anymore. You see those orbital shots? Nothing.

Maybe he has to shoot space weasels trying to eat his grapes.

My guess is at least some of the SCENES that we see are taking place inside of a HOLODECK.

NOTE the way PICARD is dressed when he does the TV INTERVIEW in Ep 1 and compare it to the way he's dressed when he goes to visit the ADMIRAL at STAR FLEET.

BIG DIFFERENCE!!!

One SUIT is OLD FASHIONED like something PICARD would wear when he was PRETENDING to be the DETECTIVE DIXON HILL inside of the HOLODECK in TNG.

The other SUIT is much more MODERN LOOKING.

PLUS we also see an OLD FASHIONED HAT hanging on the HAT RACK as PICARD GAZES at himself in the MIRROR right before he does the TV INTERVIEW.

And it also looks like it's sitting ON TOP of his HEAD as it sits there on the HAT RACK in the BACKGROUND.

PLUS the PREVIEW CLIP for EP. 4 also has PICARD wearing an OLD FASHIONED looking WHITE SUIT with a WHITE HAT that looks very much like the other HAT that we see HANGING UP on the HAT RACK in the BACKGROUND as he gazes at himself in the MIRROR.

And that means the show MAY HAVE BEEN WRITTEN so that one DOESN'T REALIZE what's REAL and WHAT IS NOT REAL.

And that's also INCLUDES NOT KNOWING that DAHJ wasn't REALLY HUMAN.

And it may also include NOT KNOWING AGNUS or the DR. J character is also a SYNTH (like DAHJ) which could also explain why she's able to be such a good SHOT with the weapon.

And it may also include NOT KNOWING that the PILOT is also a HOLOGRAM (like the other DOC was in VOYAGER) which would also explain the reason why he dismissed his TWIN who is tending to his WOUND and then sits there with the PIECE of METAL still sticking into his shoulder .

As you may recall, the HOLOGRAPHIC DOC from VOYAGER was also GIVEN the SAME LEGAL STATUS as DATA had after his TRIAL. Meaning BOTH of them were given the SAME LEGAL STATUS any other HUMAN had.

So perhaps what you see as being BAD WRITING may also be your INABILITY to SEE what's happening properly???

I think I might have an explanation for it.

Because of the kind of man Picard was, and what he did as a Starfleet captain, being the hero leading a whole band of heroes, he gained quite a few enemies over the years. I have no doubt he made sure any home he lived in had good security, due to people coming after him, possibly for revenge. That would include things like perimeter fences and alarms, a force field over the house, and hidden compartments in furniture or walls, where guns or other weapons could be stored, but only he and his housemates would know about it. I've seen it many times in both literature, tv shows, and movies, where a powerful person (even if they aren't active in world-changing stuff) would go out of their way to protect themselves and their families in their own home, due to risks they knew might happen.

Becoming close friends with two ex-Tal Shiar Romulan operatives would also factor into making his house extra secure. I mean, the couple living with him weren't just caretakers. They were Picard's unofficial bodyguards. They remembered how paranoid and distrusting Romulan society was under the original oppressive empire, before the Hobus disaster. Soji mentioning the False Front Door was very telling about Romulan society too.

I would like to point out that the world of the 24th century is very different from our own. They don't have the same kind of laws or views on things we Americans cherish in the 21st century, such as being allowed to own guns. Using current laws to describe how a civilization in the future conducts itself, particularly after World War III and fighting various alien races that threatened the earth over the centuries; doesn't make much sense if you think about it.